Advisory Committee Meeting
Event Title
POSTPONED: January 22, 2016 Meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee
January 22, 2016
- Date:
- January 22, 2016
- Time:
-
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM ET
UPDATED INFORMATION (as of 1/20/16): The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is postponing the meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee scheduled for January 22, 2016. The postponement is due to inclement weather forecasted for the Washington, DC area. A future meeting date will be announced in the Federal Register.
ORIGINAL INFORMATION
| Center | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDER | January 22, 2016 |
8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. | FDA White Oak Campus 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Building 31 Conference Center The Great Room (Rm. 1503) Silver Spring, Maryland |
Agenda
The committee will discuss new drug application 206488, eteplirsen injection for intravenous infusion, sponsored by Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in patients who have a confirmed mutation of the DMD gene that is amenable to exon 51 skipping.
Meeting Materials
FDA intends to make background material available to the public no later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the background material will be made publicly available at the location of the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be posted on FDA’s Web site after the meeting. Background material is available at: 2016 Meeting Materials, Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee
Public Participation Information
Interested persons may present data, information, or views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.
- Written submissions may be made to the contact person on or before January 7, 2016.
- Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between approximately 12:40 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. on January 22, 2016. Those individuals interested in making formal oral presentations should notify the contact person and submit a brief statement of the general nature of the evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses of proposed participants, and an indication of the approximate time requested to make their presentation on or before December 29, 2015.
Webcast Information
CDER plans to provide a free of charge, live webcast of the January 22, 2016 meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee. While CDER is working to make webcasts available to the public for all advisory committee meetings held at the White Oak campus, there are instances where the webcast transmission is not successful; staff will work to re-establish the transmission as soon as possible. Further information regarding the webcast, including the web address for the webcast, will be made available at least 2 days in advance of the meeting at the following website: 2016 Meeting Materials, Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee
CDER plans to post archived webcasts after the meeting, however, in cases where transmission was not successful, archived webcasts will not be available.
Contact Information
- Moon Hee V. Choi, PharmD
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
WO31-2417
Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
Phone: 301-796-9001
Fax: 301-847-8533
Email: PCNS@fda.hhs.gov
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